- GLib Overview
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Compiling the GLib package —
How to compile GLib itself
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Cross-compiling the GLib package —
How to cross-compile GLib
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Compiling GLib Applications —
How to compile your GLib application
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Running GLib Applications —
How to run and debug your GLib application
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Changes to GLib —
Incompatible changes made between successing versions of GLib
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Regular expression syntax —
Syntax and semantics of the regular expressions supported by GRegex
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Mailing lists and bug reports —
Getting help with GLib
- GLib Fundamentals
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Version Information — Variables and functions to check the GLib version
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Basic Types — standard GLib types, defined for ease-of-use and portability
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Limits of Basic Types — portable method of determining the limits of the standard types
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Standard Macros — commonly-used macros.
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Type Conversion Macros — portably storing integers in pointer variables
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Byte Order Macros — a portable way to convert between different byte orders
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Numerical Definitions — mathematical constants, and floating point decomposition
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Miscellaneous Macros — specialized macros which are not used often
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Atomic Operations — basic atomic integer and pointer operations
- GLib Core Application Support
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The Main Event Loop — manages all available sources of events
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Threads —
thread abstraction; including threads, different mutexes, conditions
and thread private data
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Thread Pools — pools of threads to execute work concurrently
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Asynchronous Queues — asynchronous communication between threads
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Dynamic Loading of Modules — portable method for dynamically loading 'plug-ins'
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Memory Allocation — general memory-handling
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IO Channels — portable support for using files, pipes and sockets
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Error Reporting — a system for reporting errors
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Message Output and Debugging Functions — functions to output messages and help debug applications
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Message Logging — versatile support for logging messages with different levels of importance
- GLib Utilities
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String Utility Functions — various string-related functions
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Character Set Conversion — convert strings between different character sets using
iconv()
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Unicode Manipulation — functions operating on Unicode characters and UTF-8 strings
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Base64 Encoding — encodes and decodes data in Base64 format
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Data Checksums — Computes the checksum for data
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Internationalization — gettext support macros
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Date and Time Functions — calendrical calculations and miscellaneous time stuff
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Random Numbers — pseudo-random number generator
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Hook Functions — support for manipulating lists of hook functions
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Miscellaneous Utility Functions — a selection of portable utility functions
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Lexical Scanner — a general purpose lexical scanner
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Automatic String Completion — support for automatic completion using a group of target strings
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Timers — keep track of elapsed time
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Spawning Processes — process launching with
fork()
/exec()
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File Utilities — various file-related functions
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URI Functions — URI Functions
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Shell-related Utilities — shell-like commandline handling
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Commandline option parser — parses commandline options
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Glob-style pattern matching — matches strings against patterns containing '*' (wildcard) and '?' (joker)
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Perl-compatible regular expressions — matches strings against regular expressions
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Simple XML Subset Parser — parses a subset of XML
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Key-value file parser — parses
.ini
-like config files
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Bookmark file parser — parses files containing bookmarks
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Testing
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Windows Compatibility Functions — UNIX emulation on Windows
- GLib Data Types
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Memory Slices — efficient way to allocate groups of equal-sized chunks of memory
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Memory Chunks — deprecated way to allocate groups of equal-sized chunks of memory
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Doubly-Linked Lists — linked lists containing integer values or pointers to data, with the ability
to iterate over the list in both directions
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Singly-Linked Lists — linked lists containing integer values or pointers to data, limited to
iterating over the list in one direction
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Double-ended Queues — double-ended queue data structure
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Sequences — scalable lists
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Trash Stacks — maintain a stack of unused allocated memory chunks
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Hash Tables — associations between keys and values so that given a key the value
can be found quickly
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Strings — text buffers which grow automatically as text is added
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String Chunks — efficient storage of groups of strings
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Arrays — arrays of arbitrary elements which grow automatically as elements are added
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Pointer Arrays — arrays of pointers to any type of data, which grow automatically as new
elements are added
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Byte Arrays — arrays of bytes, which grow automatically as elements are added
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Balanced Binary Trees — a sorted collection of key/value pairs optimized for searching
and traversing in order
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N-ary Trees — trees of data with any number of branches
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Quarks — a 2-way association between a string and a unique integer identifier
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Keyed Data Lists — lists of data elements which are accessible by a string or GQuark identifier
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Datasets — associate groups of data elements with particular memory locations
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Relations and Tuples — tables of data which can be indexed on any number of fields
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Caches — caches allow sharing of complex data structures to save resources
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Memory Allocators — deprecated way to allocate chunks of memory for GList, GSList and GNode
- GLib Tools
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glib-gettextize — gettext internationalization utility
- Index
- Index of deprecated symbols
- Index of new symbols in 2.2
- Index of new symbols in 2.4
- Index of new symbols in 2.6
- Index of new symbols in 2.8
- Index of new symbols in 2.10
- Index of new symbols in 2.12
- Index of new symbols in 2.14
- Index of new symbols in 2.16